Recent strikes are hitting at the core of Russia’s economy, but they are risky, and their ultimate impact is uncertain.

Exclusive drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows a devastated Ukrainian town nearly encircled by Russian forces near the city that Moscow this week claimed to now control.

The European Union wants to tap €200 billion ($354 billion) of frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine. The unprecedented plan is causing controversy.

Russia said on Monday that it had captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, in claims that Kyiv has yet to confirm or deny.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman has condemned Ukrainian drone attacks on two Russian “shadow fleet” oil tankers in the Black Sea

Moving between damp basements and muddy dugouts to fend off constant Russian attacks in the nearly 4-year-old war, exhausted Ukrainian soldiers say their motivation is fortified by knowing they're fighting for higher cause: the defense of their homeland.

The missile-armed Shahed appears to be Russia's attempt to counter Ukrainian aircraft. A Ukrainian defense manufacturer said Monday that its interceptor took down a Russian drone armed with an air-to-air missile, an unusual configuration signaling a new battlefield tactic.

Four people were killed and 40 wounded in a Russian missile attack on the eastern-central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Monday, Ukrainian officials said. The attack came amid an intensified diplomatic push to end the nearly four-year war,